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OK, gurus. Here's a fun one.

I have an old 3.5" drive from a buddy's iMac. The machine died but I was able to pull the drive and connect it to my Ubuntu machine. I see all of the folders but some of them have that damned little red X on them telling me I don't have the required permissions to access them. How do I; 1) force a permissions change, or 2) force the copy process anyway so I can give him the files on a thumb drive?

Thanks!

OK, gurus. Here's a fun one. I have an old 3.5" drive from a buddy's iMac. The machine died but I was able to pull the drive and connect it to my Ubuntu machine. I see all of the folders but some of them have that damned little red X on them telling me I don't have the required permissions to access them. How do I; 1) force a permissions change, or 2) force the copy process anyway so I can give him the files on a thumb drive? Thanks!

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Use the following command to find your USB disk mountpoint

mount -v | grep "/" | awk '{print "\nPartition identifier: " $1 "\n Mountpoint: " $3}'

Paste the results here and I'll give you the right command to remount it with write enabled.

Redacted: Partition identifier: /dev/sda2 Mountpoint: /media/bernardo/Macintosh

[–] • 0 pt

sudo umount /media/bernardo/Macintosh

sudo umount /dev/sda2

sudo mount -t hfsplus -o rw,remount -force /dev/sda2 /media/bernardo/Macintosh

Your disk should be writable and the previous chown should be working.

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sudo umount /media/bernardo/Macintosh

Error: umount /media/bernardo/Macintosh no mount point specified.

sudo umount /dev/sda2

That worked. Ut's no longer there when I run ls -ls

sudo mount -t hfsplus -o rw,remount -force /dev/sda2 /media/bernardo/Macintosh

Nothing. Still not there when I run ls -ls

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sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda2 /media/bernardo/Macintosh

If you get an error paste it here.